The New York City socialite whose many plastic surgery operations have earned her the nickname 'catwoman' was arrested by police early Wednesday following a fight at her Trump World Tower apartment.

Jocelyn Wildenstein, 76, is accused of clawing her designer boyfriend Lloyd Klein and then slashing his chest with a pair of scissors after flying in to a violent rage at around 1:30am, a source tells Page Six.

Klein, 49, was then forced to shove the 'Bride of Wildenstein' into a closet to prevent another attack according to sources, before police arrived to take her in.

Wildenstein was arraigned in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday night, where she spoke with her boyfriend for 20 minutes before appearing in front of the judge.

She also spent five minutes combing her hair while using her cell phone as a mirror.

Wildenstein has been charged with felony assault with intent to cause physical injury with a weapon and a misdemeanor assault with intent to cause physical injury.

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Court: Jocelyn Wildenstein was charged with felony assault with intent to cause physical injury with a weapon and a misdemeanor assault with intent to cause physical injury on Wednesday (above appearing before a judge on Wednesday night)

Wildenstein spoke with her boyfriend for 20 minutes before appearing in front of the judge

She also spent five minutes combing her hair while using her cell phone as a mirror

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Wildenstein detailed her wild spending and acrimonious separation in a 1998 interview with Vanity Fair.

She recounted dropping $350,000 on a Chanel dress, building a $3million mansion for her daughter on the family's Kenyan reserve Ol Jogi for her 17th birthday and the many plastic surgeries.

'She was crazy. I would always find out last. She was thinking that she could fix her face like a piece of furniture. Skin does not work that way. But she wouldn’t listen,' said Alec at the time.

Things got so bad between the two during the separation that Alec's father Daniel had Jocelyn banned from the family properties - a New York town house, their Paris chateau (the largest private residence in the city at the time), the 66,000-acre Ol Jogi ranch, and the private compound in the British Virgin Islands.

At the same time her credit cards were cut off and had her monthly allowance lowered to just $50,000, which her lawyers fought in court.

That all changed however with her massive settlement in 1999, which has allowed her to live comfortably ever since.

Rough night: Wildenstein, 76, was arrested early Wednesday after a fight with boyfriend Lloyd Klein (couple above in 2009)

Purrfect: Wildenstein earned the nicknames 'catwoman' and 'bride of Wildenstein' following her many plastic surgery operations

She also made headlines in 1999 when she received a $2.5billion settlement plus $100million a year in her divorce from Alec Wildenstein (above with second wife Liouba Stoupakova in 2001)

Felony: Wildenstein (above in April) is accused of scratching her 49-year-old designer boyfriend and then slashing him across the chest with a pair of scissors

Jocelyn and Alec first met when she was 31 and they were both on safari with friends in Kenya at Ol Jogi.

'A lion had to be killed at a neighbor’s ranch,' Alec recalled in Vanity Fair.

'The night before, Jocelyn asked, "Could I go with you?" I said, "As long as you keep your mouth shut."'

The next day they went and killed the lion, rode motorcycles and kissed for the very first time, with Jocelyn calling the moment 'quite intense.'

She was born and raised in Switzerland and, according to Alec, had dated some very high-profile men before him.

Among the men she had been linked with were European filmmaker Sergio Gobbi, Cyril Piguet, and Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.

The pair eloped to Las Vegas in 1978, and one year later they both went in for their first plastic surgery operation - his-and-hers eye lifts.

'I don’t think I’ve known her when she wasn’t healing from something,' said a friend of Jocelyn in 1998.

Her looks then became more and more feline, though Jocelyn said the resemblance was always there.

'If I show you pictures of my grandmother, what you see is these eyes - cat eyes - and high cheekbones,' she said.

'I don't think there's anything wrong with it, and other than tightening up my appearance never change,' said Wildenstein in a 1999 interview with New York.

'My clothes, I am still the same size when I was 16 years old. You like to stay young - to stay healthy. I do a lot of waterskiing with my son.'

She also said she had never had her nose done.

Daughter: Jocelyn's daughter Diane Wildenstein (above) in an interview back in 2015

Son: Alec Wildenstein (left) arriving in court this past September in Paris in his family's tax evasion case

The couple had two children early in their relationship, Diane and Alec Jr., but Alec's father never warmed to Jocelyn.

'My father checks things out. My father tried to warn me,' said Alec of his estranged wife back in 1998.

Their relationship took a turn when Jocelyn returned to New York City from Kenya and showed up unannounced at the couple's New York City townhouse, despite her husband asking that she not enter the residence.

He pointed a gun at either Jocelyn nor one of her bodyguards, police were called and Alec spent the night in prison.

Alec was also reportedly in bed with a young Russian woman at the time.

After Alec's arrest Jocelyn was allowed to use the house while he stayed at the Four Seasons, but complained in court papers that she was unable to use the stove and therefore needed money to hire help.

Her lawyer called her a 'prisoner in her own home' while asking for $200,000 a month.

New York toured the home at the time, revealing that there was a glass case above Jocelyn's bath to hold May Moon, her pet monkey.